Monday

What I'm doing between questions: first hour or so, downloading orders done last week while I was out. Next up, catching up on emails. Then peruse listserves (delete most) followed by ALB so I can check our catalog against the backlog I've developed in my feedreader for that site.

9:00

• Ownership-stamp and distribute today's papers to their spots
• "Can I take the jobs folder to a table?" [technically we're not supposed to, but sure--and he does bring in back in 20 min or so]
• Guest pass
• Pencil
• Help with adding money to print account
• Question from shelver about Spinjitzu DVD; is that what she's holding? [yes]
• Printer not working right [works for me, but the guy moved to another one and now he can print...?? Note to tech ppl]
• Look up card #; help with color printing
• For some reason the Scan/Fax station isn't logging in this morning; Librarian Z is dealing with it because I didn't even notice

10:00 [children's dept.]

• 2 girls and then mom arrive; mom asks for the author of the Gregor the Overlander series [Suzanne Collins--"oh yeah, the Hunger Games author"]
• R.L. Stine books 
• Mom + daughter here getting DVDs and books and doing a decoration for our "gingerbread" house

11:00 [children's dept.]

• Mom looking for the R.L. Stine kids
• People looking at school district art show [the mom (grandma?) is the lady who served my dinner on Christmas Eve--I love small towns!]
• Mr. Pols stops on the way out to chat about the holidays and we have a nice rambling convo--love this guy
• Bathroom key

1:00

• Help with Excel formatting
• Very loud noise from computer bays in the middle of Reference
• Five minutes later, lovely older woman comes to say that it was the guy next to her, and he's drunk and smoking; I go suggest he leave...he's not with it enough to understand or remember
• Another regular (usually drunk guy) comes in to schmooze; the boss comes out in 10 minutes and "reminds" the ACTUAL drunk guy to go [I feel bad--dude's a mess, and it's really crappy outside, but yeah]
• ...and in he just came again [so we roust him again--"I thought you just wanted me off the computer"--uh, no]
• Regular not-drunk-today guy asked for fireplace to be turned on
• Announcement from boss that we're closing early today, at 5
• Friends board member mentions he's addressing envelopes and can't figure out some of the zip codes--because the previous librarian gave him 1997 phone book to use to look up streets [I pull the zip code directory and show him how to use it so he doesn't have to Google 35 addresses....jeez]